To: Dr.

Cecelia Musselman
From: Isabella Zhang
Subject: Peer review for Arnelle Downing
9/17/2017

Summary
The author was surprised when coming to Northeastern many
assumptions were automatically made about her and was also not expecting
to deal with uncultured classmates, but its those classmates and their
dated ideologies that have shaped the educational path the author is on
now. The author believes that these ideologies can be traced all the way
back to Darwin and Freud, both of whom are very influential in the biology
field. These ideologies and biases of society about race has led left
significant impressions on the author and has fueled the authors
motivation for accomplishing the goals they have set out for themselves.

Major Points

I thought the sections were split up well and I liked the transitions
and the headings from the different chunks. I thought the tone was a little
strong overall and a lot of jargon was used so I think the author should keep
in mind the audience. The paper felt more like a personal paper rather than
an intellectual autobiography. Some areas of the paper felt aggressive and
the phrasing used I thought was questionable for a classroom assignment.

Aside from the Darwin and Freud sections, during the authors
personal narrative, it seemed to focus more on the development of the
author rather than an intellectual path. There did not seem to be much
focus or mention of significant classes or specific experiences at
Northeastern that left an impression, it felt very broad and general about
the authors experiences at Northeastern rather than classroom and
intellectual experiences.
Minor Points

There is no heading, acknowledgements or the authors name.